Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) are simple, low-pressure ways to check how well students are understanding the material. These methods are efficient, student-centered strategies that provide ...

Corrected: A table in a story that appeared in the Aug. 5 issue of Education Week included the wrong number for the classroom assessment testing in the 2007-08 year. It is $821.9 million. Many assumed ...

(TNS) — Many assumed — rightly or wrongly — that the common-core era would bring a windfall for companies in the state testing business. But one of the biggest shifts in the landscape so far has been ...

Teachers and school leaders can work together to ensure that report cards function as trustworthy indicators of what students ...

Laying out a new vision for science assessments, a panel of the National Research Council Tuesday proposed that states design testing systems that integrate several key types of science learning, and ...

Jovid Juraev, a mentor helping to train teachers in Tajikistan, noticed an important interaction when observing Fayzali Oimahmadov’s classroom: “I was observing a Grade 2 Tajik Language class where ...

New types of assessments will be needed to measure student learning once the Next Generation Science Standards are implemented, says a new report from the National Research Council. New types of ...

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Educational Testing Service are teaming up to develop a new way to evaluate competency-based learning. The two organizations announced ...

There is a heated debate right now around AI and assessment. This is understandable given that AI’s language and reasoning ...

If there's a domain where college faculty could most stand to learn from K-12 educators, it is assessment. Too often, assessment is treated in postsecondary education as synonymous with grading: as a ...